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Wednesday, March 21, 2018

Lagos Most Wanted Criminal Finally Arrested By IGP Squad

The Inspector-General of Police Intelligence Response Team (IRT) has
arrested most wanted armed robber, 31-year-old Fashola, aka Awolowo, who
has been on the wanted list of the police for a while.

Awolowo
has been wanted for offences of house-to-house robbery and road attacks
in Lagos and neighbouring states. He was declared wanted after he was
released from prison and formed a formidable, vicious gang. He was
arrested alongside three other gang members.Speaking
with journalists at the command headquarters in Ikeja, Lagos, Awolowo
said he had given up crime and was about disposing of his weapons of
destruction when he was arrested.

According to him, he had met
his mother and wife and confessed his criminal activities and his mother
placed a curse on him that if he went for any more criminal activities,
he would be arrested.

He said: “I was a notorious criminal, I
won’t deny it, but I have repented. I have even robbed in front of
Alakara Police Station, where my boy shot someone; I won’t deny it. I am
a strongman. I have been to prison three times.

"I was released
from prison through the help of my aunty. After my last release from
prison, my wife reported me to my mother. My mother, who was furious,
stripped herself naked and placed a curse on me that if I went for
robbery I would be arrested, and I said ‘Amen.’

"To do away with
the crime, I contacted a friend, who promised to buy my gun. I was
taking the gun to him when the police arrested me. I swear by with my
late father that I have stopped robbery. I used to rob people but I have
stopped.”

Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Imohimi Edgal,
who paraded the suspect and 20 others, said based on credible
intelligence gathered on the activities of a gang of robbers that
specialised in robbing motorists and passengers of their belongings and
who were also involved in house-to-house robbery, men of the IRT based
in Lagos State Command rounded up three persons, Fashola, aka Awolowo,
31, Oni, 28, and 26-year-old Oyeniyi.

He said the suspects
confessed that they were ex-convicts and a search conducted at their
hideout at Sango, Ogun State, yielded two guns.